[51886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: classless delegation [Re: IP address fee??]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Mon Sep 9 17:54:34 2002
In-Reply-To: <20020909114121.GJ31321@dataloss.nl>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:27:24 +0200
To: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 1:41 PM +0200 2002/09/09, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> PTR is not special to nameserver software in any way. If it can handle
> an A record that is the name of the domain, it can handle a PTR.
Maybe not the nameserver software you've seen. Moreover, the
real problem is not the nameserver software, but all the other
incredibly broken applications out there that can't handle PTR
co-existing with SOA & NS RRs.
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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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